You talk about alternatives yet none of your examples are of alternative solutions

No, like I said this also applies to everyone else, I just personally don't think it's going to happen..

User: X feature is not working properly

OSS Dev: Cry about it

User: Switches to proprietary alternative that works

OSS Dev: Why does no one use OSS software??

Scala is really nice and fun, but I get the feeling that it's been kinda dead for a pretty long time

This, so much. I don't mind porn but I do mind it popping up unexpectedly while browsing all instances in public. There's so much of it relative to other content that it feels like Lemmy is just used as a porn repository at the moment, I need to find more magazines to sub to

This is a pretty huge concern with distributed hosting, I hope there are some safety measures on all instances

It was so good and very few people knew about it, sad :(

I think it was just one developer doing all the work too

Not specifically into japanese metal, but Band-Maid and Babymetal are awesome